Code of Practice and recommendations for Total Body Irradiation and Total Skin Irradiation

The purpose of this workgroup is to investigate the status of treatment protocols and quality control for total body and total skin irradiation in the Netherlands and Belgium. The AAPM reports 17 and 23 are often used as start points by the different centres, but implementation changes occur after an evolution of some decades. Recent technological evolution allows new treatment and treatment planning techniques, creating a need for a guidance report for individual centres in order to compare their current way of practice to the state of the art practice. In this report we will focus on putting down the state of the art concerning: